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Handy! Those wheels don't look very wide. Would sink into soft ground. Wider pneumatics would be better imo.

Not yet there isn't.

Can't remember which is mine.

You're going to have to get an allotment, Chris. You just need a stitcher.

, Why do you think I've left them to last, Chris. About 6-7hrs.to get them like that.

When I first got married, I rebuilt a Triumph motorbike engine on the kitchen table and the whole bike in the living room. We divorced 4yrs later.

The lights will come all the bits, Tom. Take out the 4 screws on the front and the lights come off the back. Just make sure you have hold of the case, before removing the last screw.

The wheels spent the night with a coating of brake fluid. It did soften the paint but not by much. SWMBO then informed me she had some paint stripper in her studio. Gave the centres two coats as per instructions and the paint scraped of easily. Finished them of with some wire wool and the result is below. They are now all masked up ready for painting. I also got the seal changed on the drive pulley spindle. I'll have to wait to see if that's successful.

Am I right in thinking you sit on the tilted forward seat, when using the backhoe?

Nice!

Definitely more photo's please.

Tidy Chris. Looks like it was a horse harrow. Was there not another to hitch up behind it?

Thought up the colour scheme yet, Ian?

Aye well. You wouldn't get them for nowt in Yorkshire.

Typical Tyke. Make do and mend rather than spend money. Well done Mark.

That's nice of you, Paul. Cleaning and painting them to take back to where you half inched 'em.

Started on the rear wheels today. After about 4hrs with flap wheel, wire wheel and emery cloth, they are bare metal. That is except for the outer centres. Can't really get at them with flap/wire wheels. So an experiment is in progress. They are now spending the night with a coat of brake fluid on the remaining paint. (I've no paint stripper.) Also took the drive pulley off the trans' and it didn't 'arf put up a fight. Tomorrow I'll replace the weeping seal.

Mate of mine has one of those. Luxury grass cutting.

Thanks for the offers, lads. I will give it some thought.

Yard's like my workshop, Iain. Not big enough.

All the time my camera will give me.

Thanks Ian. That should make Tom and the Showman happy.

.I've a grandson who might help